After losing top three scorers, Cats coming together well. They may be grinders offensively, but they are tall, athletic, and as expected, can play D. I feel much better about them since the OSU game. A work in progress, but I like the progress.

(11-24-2018 09:03 PM)BearcatMan Wrote: Team looks good against a probably middle of the road SEC team...will be nice to see some top level competition soon. One thing is for sure, we can't beat good teams if Jarron is this inefficient and tries to shoot himself out of a funk like this.

Game in Starkville against MSU will be a better test.
Pretty sure the Bulldogs are ranked.

Bulldogs are 15. UCLA are 17. Some good tests ahead in this upcoming stretch. After Arkansas Pine Bluff we're gonna learn an awful lot about this team.

Is UNLV any good? NKU?

UNLV is 4-1 against a schedule that makes ours look like a murderer's row.

NKU is sneaky good...6-1 (they lost to UCF by 13 tonight) against a pretty iffy schedule, but have some players..four guys averaging double figures and three guys over 40% from three. McDonald is a forward averaging 20ppg on a 55/42/80 clip so far on the season...that's the guy weve got to put the brakes on.

If we can shoot 40% from the field, we'll win most of our games. It's about taking good shots. Cumberland seems in a funk from the field, but his % right now is better than his first 2. When he doesn't settle for bombs, he's awful tough to handle. Good trip.

Tre Scott is the glue on this team, in the right place with good plays. He isn't a Gary Clark (yet), but he seems to have learned the right things from Gary.

If Brooks can develop some offense, he will be wonderful for us.

If Cumberland has to always be THE guy on offense, instead of one of the guys, this could be a long season.

Williams looks like a different guy than we saw most of last season.

Logan Johnson has great upside. I think the game still has not "slowed down" for him to use his talents consistently yet, and other players are still giving him "hints" of where he needs to be defensively. I am looking forward to when all that gels.

I don't think that JJ is the liability that some posters rant about. However, it would be nice to see him penetrate more. One of the issues with that, are there any 3 point shooters to feed after the penetration?

Tre Scott is the glue on this team, in the right place with good plays. He isn't a Gary Clark (yet), but he seems to have learned the right things from Gary.

If Brooks can develop some offense, he will be wonderful for us.

If Cumberland has to always be THE guy on offense, instead of one of the guys, this could be a long season.

Williams looks like a different guy than we saw most of last season.

Logan Johnson has great upside. I think the game still has not "slowed down" for him to use his talents consistently yet, and other players are still giving him "hints" of where he needs to be defensively. I am looking forward to when all that gels.

I don't think that JJ is the liability that some posters rant about. However, it would be nice to see him penetrate more. One of the issues with that, are there any 3 point shooters to feed after the penetration?

So far we seem to be a three by comittee team, which I actually like. Last year the team would go stretches where they would just all be shooting bombs and it could lead to long scoreless stretches where nothing was dropping. This year, the focus is on penetration, get to the basket or dish it to the open man. Most of our guys can make threes at a reasonable rate when they are open, but only Cumberland shoots defended threes (which he does too much, especially last night). We aren't going to have anyone (besides Cumberland) making more than a few threes per game, but we also aren't going to have anyone (besides Cumberland) taking more then 4 or 5 threes per game and those threes will be open shots.

For those asking about UNLV, they are basically a poor man's version on the Bearcats - huge inside so they are a very good interior D and rebounding team, but will struggle with shooting and TOs. Also a little more pacey offensively since their HC offense can be so wonky. That game should be a rock fight.

(11-25-2018 07:02 AM)ucbandguy Wrote: I don't think that JJ is the liability that some posters rant about. However, it would be nice to see him penetrate more.

We would all love to penetrate a bit more on this board.

hear! hear!

Jenifer does make plays though. He's had some very nice assists and finishes. Even if, the offense seems less fluid, the reality is we need all the points we can get. Defensively, his size is limiting and the same can be said for Broome.